{"id":237,"date":"2007-10-04T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/just-how-rural-are-googles-billboards\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T13:27:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T17:27:33","slug":"just-how-rural-are-googles-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/just-how-rural-are-googles-billboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Just how rural are Google&#8217;s Billboards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Goog-411 rolls out bill boards in the hinterlands?\" href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/goog411-rolls-out-bill-boards-in-the-hinterlands\/\">Goog-411 rolls out bill boards in the hinterlands?<\/a> I noted that Google had chosen some extremely rural  settings for their billboard placements. 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